National Register of Historic Places listings in Portage County, Wisconsin
Location of Portage County in Wisconsin
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Portage County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Portage County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.[1]
There are 18 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
- This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 2, 2016.[2]
Current listings
| [3] | Name on the Register[4] | Image | Date listed[5] | Location | City or town | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Folding Furniture Works Building |  |
(#93000666) |
1020 First St. 44°31′32″N 89°35′13″W / 44.525556°N 89.586944°W |
Stevens Point | Factory built in 1919, burned in 1931, and rebuilt larger.[6] Also known as Lullabye Furniture Warehouse and Plywood Mill. |
| 2 | Fox Theater |  |
(#82000698) |
1116-1128 Main St. 44°31′25″N 89°34′59″W / 44.523611°N 89.583056°W |
Stevens Point | Point's Grand Opera House was built in 1896 in the Romanesque style. It hosted charity events, theater productions, and speeches by Eugene Debs and William Jennings Bryan.[7] |
| 3 | August G. and Theresa Green House |  |
(#05000533) |
1501 Main St. 44°31′32″N 89°34′38″W / 44.525556°N 89.577222°W |
Stevens Point | Queen Anne home designed by J. H. Jeffers and built in 1903.[8] August was a Prussian immigrant who ran a meat market and lumber and coal business in Point.[9] |
| 4 | Hardware Mutual Insurance Companies Building |  |
(#94001358) |
1421 Strongs Ave. 44°31′19″N 89°34′55″W / 44.521944°N 89.581944°W |
Stevens Point | The 1922 Classical Revival building designed by Childs & Smith of Chicago now houses offices of Sentry Insurance.[10] |
| 5 | Hotel Whiting |  |
(#90001457) |
1408 Strongs Ave. 44°31′19″N 89°34′57″W / 44.521944°N 89.5825°W |
Stevens Point | Neoclassical hotel, designed by Alfred Clas and opened in 1923.[11] Now apartments and offices. |
| 6 | J. L. Jensen House |  |
(#88001151) |
1100 Brawley St. 44°31′09″N 89°34′50″W / 44.519167°N 89.580556°W |
Stevens Point | Queen Anne home designed by J. H. Jeffers and built in 1901 for Jensen, a grocer.[12] Now a B&B.[13] |
| 7 | Christina Kuhl House |  |
(#78000126) |
1416 Main St. 44°31′25″N 89°34′41″W / 44.523611°N 89.578056°W |
Stevens Point | Second Empire house built in 1886[14] by family of cabinet-makers, brewers, and developers. |
| 8 | Mathias Mitchell Public Square-Main Street Historic District |  |
(#86001513) |
Roughly Main St. from Strongs Ave. to Second St. 44°31′24″N 89°35′04″W / 44.523333°N 89.584444°W |
Stevens Point | The square has hosted a farmers' market since 1870.[15] Most of the buildings along the square and Main Street are old brick, in a variety of styles. |
| 9 | David McMillan House |  |
(#74000117) |
1924 Pine St. 44°31′05″N 89°34′30″W / 44.518056°N 89.575°W |
Stevens Point | High Victorian Gothic home built in 1873.[16] McMillan brought his family west from New York in 1864 to operate a sawmill on the Plover River which supplied his lumber yard in Keokuk. His sons established the company lumber town McMillan north of Marshfield.[17] |
| 10 | J. H. Morgan House |  |
(#74000118) |
1308 Madison Ave. 44°27′21″N 89°31′42″W / 44.455833°N 89.528333°W |
Plover | Italianate house built in 1860. A.k.a. Lloyd Wallin house.[18] |
| 11 | Nelson Hall |  |
(#05000643) |
1209 Fremont St. 44°31′33″N 89°34′04″W / 44.525833°N 89.567778°W |
Stevens Point | First dormitory at Stevens Point Normal School, designed by Van Ryn & DeGelleke in Prairie School style and built in 1915.[19][20] |
| 12 | Old Plover Methodist Church |  |
(#80000393) |
Madison Ave. 44°27′25″N 89°32′27″W / 44.456944°N 89.540833°W |
Plover | Oldest surviving church building in the county, built in 1857 by Presbyterians and sold to Methodists in 1866. The Greek Revival building is now a museum.[21] |
| 13 | Pipe School |  |
(#93001171) |
Jct. of Pipe Rd. and Co. Hwy. T 44°24′33″N 89°14′00″W / 44.409167°N 89.233333°W |
Lanark | One-room school built in 1889 with balloon-frame structure.[22] |
| 14 | L. A. Pomeroy House |  |
(#92001560) |
203 Laconia St. 44°27′01″N 89°17′12″W / 44.450278°N 89.286667°W |
Amherst | Queen Anne home[23] of L. A. Pomeroy, an organizer of the International Bank in Amherst, and later cashier.[24] |
| 15 | John Gilbert Rosholt House |  |
(#10000232) |
237 N. Main St. 44°37′54″N 89°18′34″W / 44.631683°N 89.309461°W |
Rosholt | Queen Anne style house finished in 1906. Rosholt started the sawmill and bank and contributed greatly to the community.[25] |
| 16 | Severance-Pipe Farmstead |  |
(#93001163) |
Pipe Rd., 1/8 mi. E of Co. Hwy. T 44°24′39″N 89°13′54″W / 44.410833°N 89.231667°W |
Lanark | Farmhouse of balloon-frame construction built in 1853 in Greek Revival style. Also known as Thomas Pipe Inn.[26] |
| 17 | Stevens Point State Normal School |  |
(#76000074) |
2100 Main St. 44°31′28″N 89°34′07″W / 44.524444°N 89.568611°W |
Stevens Point | Built in 1894, the building now known as "Old Main" at that time was Wisconsin's sixth normal school.[27] |
| 18 | Temple Beth Israel |  |
(#07000101) |
1475 Water St. 44°31′13″N 89°34′59″W / 44.520278°N 89.583056°W |
Stevens Point | Synagogue of local Jewish community, built in 1905 and used through 1986. Now it is a museum.[28] |
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Wisconsin
References
- ↑ The latitude and longitude information provided is primarily from the National Register Information System, and has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. For 1%, the location info may be way off. We seek to correct the coordinate information wherever it is found to be erroneous. Please leave a note in the Discussion page for this article if you believe any specific location is incorrect.
- ↑ "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on December 2, 2016.
- ↑ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-24). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
- ↑ "Folding Furniture Works Building". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ "Fox Theater". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
- ↑ "Theresa and August G. Green House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ McGlachlin, Edward (1919). A Standard History of Portage County, Wisconsin: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development, Volume 2. Portage County, Wisconsin: Lewis Publishing Company. pp. 431–432.
- ↑ "Hardware Mutual Insurance Company Building". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ "Hotel Whiting". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-08-31.
- ↑ "Jensen, John L. House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ "Dreams of Yesteryear - Victorian Bed & Breakfast". Retrieved 2011-10-12.
- ↑ "Christina Kuhl House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-08-31.
- ↑ "Public Square Historical Marker". Portage County Historical Society. 1962. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
- ↑ "David McMillan House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
- ↑ Town of McMillan Centennial (1888-1988). 1988. p. 4.
- ↑ "J. H. Morgan House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ "History of UW-Stevens Point - John F. Sims". Portage County Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ↑ "Nelson Hall". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-08-31.
- ↑ "The Old Plover Methodist Church". Portage County Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ↑ "Lanark News" (PDF). Town of Lanark. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ↑ "L. A. Pomeroy House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-08-31.
- ↑ Edward McGlachlin; George W. Fleming; John G. Rosholt; John W. Glennon; Orestes A. Crowell; Steven H. Worzella; Louis A. Pomeroy, eds. (1919). A Standard History of Portage County Wisconsin. Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 661.
- ↑ "John Gilbert Rosholt House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
- ↑ "Lanark News" (PDF). Town of Lanark. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ↑ "UW Stevens Point - Contest". Malcolm Rosholt Online Archives. Portage County Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
- ↑ "Temple Beth Israel". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
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